PDP Suspends Deputy National Chairman, Gamawa Babayo

By Jide Afolabi, Jos

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has suspended its Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Gamawa Babayo, over allegation of dereliction of duty and anti-party activity.

According to Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Babayo was suspended by the National Working Committee.

He said that the the committee held an extraordinary session on January 5, where it critically reviewed the petition against the deputy national chairman (North).

He said, “The NWC found merit in the petition on allegation of dereliction of duty and anti-party activity as contained in Section 58 (1) e, f, g, h of the PDP Constitution.

“Therefore, in exercise of section 29 (2) a, b and c, the NWC hereby invokes Section 59 (1) d of the constitution of the PDP on the Deputy National Chairman (North) and accordingly suspends him from the party immediately.”

The PDP has been rocked with wave of wave of defections by members in both the North West and North East recently.

A former governorship candidate of the party in Kano, Engineer Bello Sani-Gwarzo dumped PDP and moved to the ruling APC.

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, formally received various members of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Support Groups from the North East, who dumped the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.